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One year ago, on April 16th 2024, the first page of Peregrine Lake went online. One year since we first met Bev as she drove through a snow storm and said the exact thing most of us have said in that scenario.
It took so long for Peregrine Lake to get off the ground. I first announced it back in December of 2019, and originally I was going to draw it. And then the world fell apart, and I found myself with zero ability to draw it anymore. I kept kicking the idea around, wanting to move it forward when in 2023 I jokingly suggested to my friend Ethan that they could draw the comic for me.
And they said yes, they'd love to, and I am not one to look a gift horse in the mouth.
We then spent almost a year regularly meeting, talking about my plans for the plots, the world, the characters, and all the things that would have otherwise just lived in my head. I started scripting comics, and Ethan got to work on concept art. And for most of 2023 we planned and got ready, and we hit the ground running in 2024.
And now we're here. Honestly, I love everything we've put out over the last year. Ethan's art is incredible, and tells the story in a way that I'm not sure mine would have. I love this comic, I love that you all are reading it, and I'm excited to show you what's coming next.
Because we've only just scratched the surface on how weird this is going to get.
On April 26th I'm going to be at Concinnity in Milwaukee, WI! Stop on by and say hi if you're in town!
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Is Ruth asexual/aromantic, or is this a joke about a nerd girl we know that everyone asked out and no one ever succeeded? Both?
Both. Mostly the former, but both.
Does Troy Harrington do any voices for that series?
It’s not on his resume. 😛
So what company owns the dubbing rights to this series?
Victory Sunstar has the rights, but they’re currently in bankruptcy.
Magical Soldier Princess Z is a remake of Galaxy Fighter Hiromi, which was a better series, but you kids won’t watch it because it isn’t CGI. At least I was able to replace my Arctic fansubs.
Actually you’re thinking of Magical Starlight Empress Z, which is totally different.
Magic Soldier Princess Z is an obscure series from the late 70s. It was originally released stateside as the bastardized dub “Soldiers of the Sun” (where it got combined with the unrelated series “Lost Whispers” and “Destiny Police” which was weird) in 1982 by Silver Rhythm. Silver Rhythm lost the rights to MSPZ in 2002, when Victory Sunstar snatched it up. Victory Sunstar put out a DVD release in 2004. It didn’t sell well, so it went out of print in 2007 — and with Victory Sunstar’s legal and financial problems there doesn’t appear to be any chance of a rerelease.
(As an odd coda, Silver Rhythm has tried to release a version of Soldiers of the Sun WITHOUT the MSPZ footage… And it doesn’t really work)
And Kelli and Sally were the *worst* names to use for those characters. Ugh! Thank the gods for the mute button.
I just hate Captain/General Rayburn. I mean they made General Yamazaki from Destiny Police an older version of Tanaka from MSPZ. As if it made any sense to combine those two characters to bridge the “generations”
What, did the guy just happen to grow his left arm back somehow?
You know, when I was a kid watching it, it always weirded me out that the character designs changed so drastically. When I found out they weren’t meant to be one cartoon, it made more sense.
My heart rate still doubles when I hear the theme song, though.